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- Nouvo-European Vocal Harmonics - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn our last conversation, we began the discussion of harmonics. We talked about the actual physics of harmonics--their relationships as geometric multiples of vibrating strings. We also discussed some of their uses in the esoteric traditions such as the Tibetan "Deep Voice" chanting style. I ...
Views: 1918 - The "How To's" to Being Happier - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs I sat in my office on a rainy, gloomy day, I found my spirits sinking, my thoughts churning to the list of things to do that day, and I found myself wanting to crawl back in my bed, closing my eyes, and waiting for tomorrow to come in hopes that the sun might then shine. Then I could be ...
Views: 529 - It's So Hard to Be Goode - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis past Wednesday evening, I could hardly believe my eyes when I watched the season premier of The Goode Family, a new animated sitcom on ABC by Mike Judge (along with John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky). The show, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of an environmentally-responsible, ...
Views: 642 - Mainstream Medicine and the Oprah Factor - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA recent cover story in a struggling news magazine, under the title "Crazy Talk:" accuses Oprah Winfrey of spreading "dubious advice" in a wide range of health issues from menopause and hormone replacement therapy to autism, cancer, aging, and weight loss. The tone of the article was the same ...
Views: 554 - Heavenly Arame Salad - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRecipe courtesy of Vegan Fusion World Cuisine 35 Minutes prep / 3-4 servings Salad 2 cups purple cabbage, julienned, 2 ” long 1 cup grated carrots 1 cup fresh or frozen corn 1 cup diced red bell pepper 1 cup of Arame, soaked in warm water until soft; then drained 1/2 cup ...
Views: 892(2 votes) - Perspective - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWorking out of this brain concussion from being hit by the car is a very challenging experience. I have always had great confidence in my strong, bright, quick mind and really have taken my brain for granted all of my life. I have a completely different perspective on life after this event. I ...
Views: 556(2 votes) - Three Rs of Manifesting - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI think I’m so clever when I sum something up with a couple of words that start with the same letter. (Is that alliteration?) Whether it’s clever, silly, or just an excuse for a blog post, I thought I’d share the latest one - because if we can keep it simple, it’s easier to employ, right? ...
Views: 1102(3 votes) - Morning Motivation: It’s OK to Make Mistakes - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne thing standing in the way of happiness for many people is long-held guilt over something that happened days, weeks, months, or even years ago. A twinge of guilt can be very useful in letting us know that we took a wrong turn somewhere, but long-held guilt offers absolutely no benefit at ...
Views: 1506(2 votes) - Are You Really Following Your Dreams? - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA version of this post was first published on the blog Patricia's Wisdom on June 5, 2009. Many of us live ignoring our intuition and our dreams. And then we wonder why we're not happy. But as you can see by the story below, when we open ourselves up to our dreams, a lot more opens up for us ...
Views: 599(2 votes) - The Four Phases of Confidence - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsToday I want to talk a little bit about confidence. It’s probably more a yang (masculine) quality than a yin (feminine) one. But I’ll just assume it’s of general interest and address both the men and the women. First of all, what the heck is confidence? It’s what linguists call a ...
Views: 769 - Got Acid Reflux? Is your medication breaking your bones? - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBy Ashley Koff RD and Gerard E. Mullin MD http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2009/05/29/got-heartburn-a-caution-about-your-proton-pump-inhibitor.html This article raised concerns among patients about a link between proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a common treatment for acid reflux ...
Views: 850 - Operating System Corrupted - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOkay, so I’m no more exempt than anyone else. I’ve spent the past four days under a cloud of a corrupted operating system in my computer. According to Dell, they receive 20-30 per DAY about just the same problem. What it eventually meant for me was a restoration of my computer to the day it was ...
Views: 3188 - How to Be Happier - Living Our Fairytales - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“I move from wish to wish in my life“ I realized, while in a shower, a couple of days ago. "I wish to do something, to be something, and my life moves in that direction. I wished to become a psychologist for a while, then I wished to become a designer, then I wished to become a freelance ...
Views: 514 - 9 Ways to Stimulate Your Creativity - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI love creativity - seeing things differently, finding new ways to do old things, discovering new ideas or new approaches to challenges and opportunities. Creativity is one of the hallmarks of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and one of the great benefits of engaging in the process of Working ...
Views: 1923(1 vote) - 8 Ways to Kick an Online Rut - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI don't know about you, but to me, June equates to being outside. Weddings, graduations, picnics and parties; its as if we are all coming out of our winter hibernation, basking in the sunlight, and feeling eager for some old fashioned socializing. Yet, is a little blinking screen or buzzing hand ...
Views: 582 - A Friend Becoming A Stranger - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: I hung up the phone last night after talking to my best friend of 30 years. I haven't been able to think of anything else, since then. So, I decided I needed to ask someone I admire to help me understand. She and I have spent so much time learning about different paths to ...
Views: 1016 - Marty Tankleff and the Murders He Did Not Commit: Our Obsession with Scapegoats - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSeveral weeks ago, I listened with horror the story of a fourteen-year-old suburban boy who was manipulated by his interrogators to confess to the brutal murder of his younger sister. This story was one incident of other cases highlighted in an old podcast episode of This American Life, which ...
Views: 649 - The Invitation - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt’s impossible for any of us be in or even look at nature without our mind, body and soul experiencing pure joy on some level. Every cell of life in June is an invitation to each of us. June’s invitation is beckoning us, “come play, let’s rest, read this book, wiggle your painted toes in ...
Views: 603(2 votes) - A Stress-Free Way To Get Things Done - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you have more to do than you can get done? If so, there's a certain amount of good news there - it means you have something to do! In the past, that was called a job - a job, by definition, is something that needs doing and is almost never finished. Cleaning the floor is obvious - as soon ...
Views: 742(1 vote) - How to be Happier...by Working for Free! - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI'm sure many people will read a bit of what I have to say and quickly discard it. And why wouldn't they? Our lives are SO busy and there is SO much to do...how would I ever find time to VOLUNTEER? And how could that possible make me a happier person? The answers are simple and are two ...
Views: 551(2 votes) - Happiness is Available All the Time - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHappiness is a choice. Happiness is available all the time. It’s just a thought away. Think of a time when you were very happy. Perhaps it was the time you saw rainbow, held a baby, fell in love or swam in a tropical ocean. Think of the feelings that flooded your heart – the optimism or the ...
Views: 525(1 vote) - Happier in Love - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo Serious scientific inquiry has proven this quote to be true. By all measures of health and well being, the single most significant predictor of ...
Views: 667(1 vote) - The Life Gains Game: 6 Steps to Getting What You Want With Ease - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe Life Gains Game is a mental journey you can take to drop the baggage we all carry about WANTING something. You know that baggage? I can’t afford it. My family needs too much for me to splurge like that. I have too much stuff already. The Life Gains Game clears out all that chatter and ...
Views: 577(2 votes) - Eat Fish, Be Happy - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt’s amazing! When researchers took a close look at the foods typically eaten in various countries, they discovered an interesting insight: as fish consumption increased, depression decreased. Of course, depression isn’t uniform in each country; it varies from city to city and town to town. But ...
Views: 666(5 votes) - Get High with Movement and Motion - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsExhilaration, well-being, accomplishment: these aren’t words we often associate with exercise. But if you exercise regularly, and you take the time to tune in to your emotions while you’re in motion and then when you stop, it’s likely you’ll be feeling pretty good. This is because ongoing ...
Views: 537(1 vote) - Fibroymyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFibromyalgia means that a previously healthy person develops unexplained exhaustion, fatigue and muscle aches and pains that last for more than six months, all blood tests are normal and doctors can't find a cause (1). One report shows that a large number of people who were diagnosed as having ...
Views: 1066(1 vote) - Intend the Return of Laura Ling and Euna Lee - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn light of the recent sentencing of US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea, and the ongoing stalemate in US and North Korean relations, it is vital that we all hold in our hearts and minds the space within which a resolution can be reached so >these women can be quickly returned ...
Views: 814 - Nine Tips for Feeling Happier -- in the Next HOUR. - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat do you do if you're feeling blue because of the financial crisis? Or if you're just having an extremely lousy day? Here are nine strategies that can boost your mood right now in a happiness emergency. In the next thirty minutes, check off as many of the following items as possible. Each one ...
Views: 583(1 vote) - Summer of Service is Upon us - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt's a new era in American giving. The White House will be launching a groundbreaking service initiative in the coming weeks and you're all invited to participate. It's called the Summer of Service and it's Barack Obama's "ask what you can do for your country." The initiative aims to make public ...
Views: 578(1 vote) - Top Green Beauty Favorites This Season for Face, Body, Home - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsGreen beauty guru and celebrity makeup artist Renata Helfman (pictured above) has been eschewing chemicals in her home and personal care products for years. It was only when she realized the world lacked a one-stop-shop for these eco essentials that she started Vert Los Angeles, calling it an ...
Views: 1157(1 vote) - Make Your Hopes, Dreams and Intentions Come True! - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat’s your dream? Have you forgotten it? Many of us do. You start out in this life with hopes and dreams and ambitions. Often they are quickly dissipated by your fears – what will people think? Can I earn enough money at it? How could I possibly attain this goal? I’m not good enough. I ...
Views: 1706(1 vote) - This Week on Intent: Tell Us How to Be Happier - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis week on Intent, we want to hear your ideas on how to be happier. What can we all do as individuals or communities to make ourselves happier? We want to hear general principles in addition to very specific action steps. We also want to hear everything in every possible subcategory of ...
Views: 481(1 vote) - How A Humble Hand-Written Receipt Signals "Real Deal" - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMy oldest son likes to expose me to new music. To bands with names like “El Ten Eleven” and “Architecture in Helsinki.” Atonal, modern-sounding stuff that I can’t quite describe. For Mother’s Day he gave me this CD. Cover of CD "Actor" by St. Vincent (yes, she goes by that name) We ...
Views: 1586(2 votes) - Spiritualizing The Planet - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are one with the cosmos whether we realize it or not. Realizing it, though, quickens our spiritual energy and allows us access to higher realms. In those higher realms lies the awareness that we are more than just finite physical beings living one life in one place at one point in time. ...
Views: 504(1 vote) - The Importance of a Good Night Sleep - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHave you ever missed a good night sleep and then the next night stayed up late to watch your favorite rerun of Friends, Frasier or Scrubs...because even though you had seen it five times, you just couldn't get enough? And then the night after, you went out with friends for drinks and dinner, ...
Views: 626(2 votes) - Pedestrian Push-Back - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen I walk down to my local post office I usually pick up litter along the way to dispose of it properly later. Today I was trying to cross the road at a designated pedestrian crossing - you know, the kind with a day-glow florescent bollard in the middle of the road and a sign that says ‘State ...
Views: 550(1 vote) - Habits of Tension? - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA week ago my sweetie and I started watching Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler and got two thirds through before the DVD player went fritzy. All week long I’d been imagining how it might end, really enjoying the anticipation of alternate possibilities. Last night with a new DVD player connected ...
Views: 726(2 votes) - The Sacred Practice of Spirit Communication - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen we, who are still living in physical bodies, are granted access to communications with the spirits of those who have passed on into eternal life, we have reason to give grateful thanks to a power greater than ourselves. From my perspective as a psychic medium, when I am able to open up a ...
Views: 1065(1 vote) - Do We Really Want a Mini Cold War? - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe issue of Iran's nuclear threat escalates every day, but it is already wearisome — one more threat to add to a pile that's too high already. Several weeks ago Iran launched a solid fuel missile capable of striking Israel. Reading the news, I felt Cold War déjà vu. Anyone who grew up in the ...
Views: 810(1 vote) - Morning Motivation: The Impossible Is Achieved Every Day - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are often told that an intent or goal is impossible, so we shouldn’t even try to achieve it. But every day, people are achieving the “impossible.” Someone is meeting an impossible deadline. Someone is celebrating a positive pregnancy result after doctors said it would be impossible. Someone ...
Views: 661(2 votes) - My Dog Is A Buddhist - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou can learn a lot from observing a dog, but you knew this already. You have a dog of your own, were a fan of Lassie or Clifford or Marley and Me, or, simply, are more attuned to the canine world than I am. You know that they teach loyalty, unconditional love, unparalleled listening skills, ...
Views: 1490(2 votes) - Fitness and Fashion? - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe MTV episode of True Life: I Hate My Large Breasts just aired where I made a cameo offering lady an alternative to surgery. You can see me speaking with her about the fact that she just needs confidence and working out can help that. There are some scenes of us working out as ...
Views: 592 - The Joys of Unplugging - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe live in a constantly connected world. Between cell phones, smart phones with email, laptops and wi-fi, we can be available any time, any place. Add in MP3 players, and you complete the electronic cocoon most of us wrap ourselves in. Yet this electronic availability takes us away from the ...
Views: 856 - A Prayer of Gratitude - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAdobe House, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico Gratitude is the key to acceptance, wisdom, peace and abundance. Let's express a prayer of gratitude. Mine is: Thank you for the opportunity to know what is important and what is not important. Thank you for love, health, peace and prosperity. Thank ...
Views: 608 - Morning Motivation: A Personal Vision of Living a Full Life - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn school we’re given letter grades like A’s or B’s, or graded on percentages like 95% or 81%. Once we’ve graduated, we certainly continue to be judged by others and ourselves (sometimes cruelly so) but it’s no longer clear what we need to study, who the teacher is, what the correct answers are, ...
Views: 614(2 votes) - How often should you check in with a sick friend? - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA colleague recently shared a dilemma with me. One of his friends has been battling leukemia for several months, and he’s not sure how often or even how to contact her. “It’s always been a ‘who’s gonna call whom?’ kind of friendship anyway,” Dwight explained, “and Amy’s never liked to share a ...
Views: 3062 - Everything is possible in nature - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI love being with nature, with trees, because of the way they relate. There is no "noise" in relationship with trees. There is no "little voice in my head", there are no stories, no "right way" to be, to talk, no "right thing to do". There is only space to be. There is no talking. I realized ...
Views: 509 - The Fascinating World of Pranic Healing: What in the world is it? - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOn the 4th of June, I had my most amazing experience in Pranic healing. I was treating someone who was recovering from a severe stroke that had left him a quadriplegic for six months, last year. His right side was very weak. In the first session that he received he saw a 50 percent improvement ...
Views: 1660 - Believe in Yourself! A Self-Care Strategy - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAre you one of your biggest fans? Do you think you’re capable and worthy? Would you pick yourself to be on your team? If you answered ‘no’ to any of the above questions, you could use an attitude change and a healthful infusion of personal esteem. Self-esteem is described as confidence in ...
Views: 751(2 votes) - Birds... an apology - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA few days back I wrote about the robins nesting right next to the backdoor of my house. At the time I thought they’d been spooked by all the activity and left. It turns out I was wrong. I’d made some comments about how, they, like us, tend to keep on doing things as always in the face of ...
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